The Myth of the Superhacker

mlimber writes "University of Colorado Law School professor Paul Ohm, a specialist in computer crime law, criminal procedure, intellectual property, and information privacy, writes about the excessive fretting over the Superhacker (or Superuser, as Ohm calls him), who steals identities, software, and media and sows chaos with viruses etc., and how the fear of these powerful users inordinately shapes laws and policy related to privacy and digital rights."

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Nothing speical about hackers

[P3NIS_CLEAVER]

You will find this sentiment about any type of criminal... they prepare for attacks like you would see in an action movie, but in reality most of the crimes are committed out of stupidity or drug influence.

Re:This article is stupid

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Explaining a Joke = unfunny joke.

Having a comment that looks trollish or that is based off of some third site that has nothing to do with this story should be acceptable for those mods. If you disagree go meta moderate, complaining about bad mods here doesn't help anything.